Door-check



(No Model.) PQJ. HERRIOK.

DOOR CHECK.

No. 383,809. Patented May 29, 1888.

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

FRANK. J. HERRIOK, OF NEW BRITAIN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO WM. EDGARSIMONDS, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.

DOOR-CHECK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 383,809, dated May 29,1888.

(No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK. J. HERRIGK, of New Britain, in the county ofHartford and State of Connecticut, have invented a certain new anduseful Improvement in Door-Checks, of which the following is adescription, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, where-Figure 1 is a side View of a door-check embodying my improvement. Fig 1is a view of the rubber cushion, hereinafter described, in centralvertical section. Fig. 2 is a view of the cushion end of the door checkwith the cushion removed. Fig. 3 is an end view of the cushion end.

This improvement belongs in that class of devices which are used toprevent doors and articles of furniture from striking against walls,pictures, and the like. of this improvement is the production of a doorcheck having some squared surface,or the like, to which some sort ofwrench may be applied, whereby to screw the door-check home to its seatin the base-board, the rubber cushion being meanwhile absent, afterwhich the rubber cushion is put in place, and when thus put in place itcovers the aforesaid squared surface from sight. This kind of attachmentbetween the rubber cushion and the body of the door-check I denominatein the claim at the end of this specification as removable.

The letter a denotes a pillar or standard, which I intend to have castof some cheap metal.

The point and essence The letter 7) denotes a screw for attaching thedoor-check to a base-board, or the like, which screw I intend to havepermanently joined to the pillar or standard in the process of casting.

The letter cdenotes a rubber cushion against which it is intended tohave the door or article of furniture strike.

The letter d denotes the button at the outer end of the standard orpillar on which the rubber cushion or buffer is to be attached. Twosides of the button are slabbed off, as best seen in Fig. 3, to the endthat the wrench may be fitted thereon and used to drive the screw home,after which the rubber cushion is slipped upon the button, where it willrest securely, and the slab-sided screw will be hid from sight by therubber cushion. This slabsided cushion I call a wrench-grip, because itaffords a means by which the wrench may grip the door-check and drivethe screw home.

I claim as my invention The pillar a, bearing the screw b at its baseand also bearing the Wrench-grip d, in combination with the removableyielding cushion c, all substantially as described, and for the purposeset forth.

FRANK. J. HERRIOK.

Witnesses:

\VM. E. SIMo Ds, CHAS. L. BURDETT.

